... the nation; therefore, the Montgomery Bus Boycott played a vital role in the Civil Rights Movement. Moreover, the boycott was significant because Martin Luther King, Jr. was appointed as President of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and thus began his influential position in the Movement. The success of the boycott was a sign that it was time for African Americans to start a ... 1961. People were sent on trips to assess the implementation of anti-segregation laws in airports and in bus and train stations. Regardless of the laws, most of the time the freedom riders were recei...

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... . "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws (Cornell Law School, 14th Amendment - Section 1)." Marshall ... for a massive attack upon Jim Crow itself (Blumberg, 42). A new type of civil rights movement began in 1960. The scheme was known as nonviolent civil disobedience; sit-ins, freedom rides, and mass demonstrations were just a fe...

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